What is your most vivid memory from your first visit to Disneyland? Mine was from October 1968 when I was four and a half. Mom, Dad, and I were driving from Arizona to Northern California. I had never been to a theme park (any any amusement park, for that matter). I remember walking through the castle and being assailed by a riot of color, music, and kenetics of pre-1983 Fantasyland. Mom says that my eyes were as big as suacers. I also remember being afraid of Adventure Thru Inner Space and had nightmares about it for years.

Screaming like a terrified toddler when my father convinced me we were ACTUALLY being shrunk on Inner Space. In my defense, I was an actual terrified toddler. And my dad was (and likely still is) a massive jerk.

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Screaming like a terrified toddler when my father convinced me we were ACTUALLY being shrunk on Inner Space. In my defense, I was an actual terrified toddler. And my dad was (and likely still is) a massive jerk.

I'm wondering how many of us dating back into the seventies are going to have "TERRIFIED OF THAT DAMN INNERSPACE RIDE" as the most vivid memory.

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I was a baby my first visit was sooner then I can recall. Although possibly the 2nd or 3rd I can recall as my memory of the park still as a toddler sitting in the Mine Train Through Natures Wonderland and barely being able to see over the sides at the animals as my Mom or Dad were holding me.

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Screaming like a terrified toddler when my father convinced me we were ACTUALLY being shrunk on Inner Space. In my defense, I was an actual terrified toddler. And my dad was (and likely still is) a massive jerk.

my first memory is the same thing! ATIS scared the you now what out of me the first time I was watching the omnimovers go through the microscope. I can still see it in my mind! I ended up loving the attraction though LOL

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for sure rocket to the moon......100% convinced....but my most vivid and first E ticket was the Mine train thru Natures wonderland....sitting on the bench, looking over the side at all those animals I had seen on TV, so real...they were real, going over the trestle, thru the mine colors....it was all so real......always the first E ticket......because as an 8 year old I was alone in the park and had no family to dictate the values of my ticket book.....then looking for wrist watches to ask what time it was so I could catch the bus back to Lafereny Road

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Snow White. The Evil Queen and Maleficent were big hits in my family. I don't get it that it's too scary for some little kids. Totally loved it.
Rocket to the Moon is a really vivid memory, too. Funny how it's the one for a lot of us.